Plus Ultra magazine was published in Buenos Aires between March 1916 and
December 1930. It was the illustrated supplement of the popular Caras y Caretas weekly
publication. However, because of its ...price, the magazine was intended for a higher
income public. Plus Ultra included a section called Páginas Femeninas, which addressed
female readers and appeared regularly until 1920. Women from the Argentinean upper
class collaborated with the magazine and published poems, letters, profiles, and opinion
articles. They also echoed the controversies that took place at the time about the place of
women in the public sphere. The “feminine question” (so were called those debates) were
contemporary with the emergence of feminism in Argentina. This article aims to trace the dialogues in Plus Ultra's Páginas Femeninas with the debates that took place in the
public sphere on the issue of women and feminism.
La revista Plus Ultra se publicó en Buenos Aires entre marzo de 1916 y
diciembre de 1930. Se trató del suplemento mensual del popular magazín Caras y Caretas,
aunque, debido a su costo y a la calidad de su confección, apuntó a un público de mayor
poder adquisitivo y más selecto. La publicación incluyó una sección destinada
especialmente al público femenino –las Páginas Femeninas–, que apareció de manera
regular hasta 1920. Sus colaboradoras fueron mujeres de la clase alta argentina, con
intereses culturales y literarios, quienes publicaron diversos textos (poemas, cartas,
semblanzas, artículos de opinión) y se hicieron eco de las discusiones que se daban en su
época sobre el lugar que debía ocupar la mujer en la esfera pública. Esos debates, que se
englobaron bajo la denominación “cuestión femenina”, fueron contemporáneos al
surgimiento del feminismo inicial en la Argentina. Este artículo se propone rastrear los
diálogos que se entablaron en las Páginas Femeninas de Plus Ultra con esos debates más
amplios que se daban en la esfera pública a propósito de la cuestión femenina y el
feminismo.
In the previous chapter, my goal was to question the view that Islamic societies cannot be modern. Equally, however, we cannot see modernity in an Islamic society as simply a product of Islam. This ...is so precisely because modernity is a new phenomenon that requires an alteration of the existing socio-cultural world. The agency of modernity is important as well as the context. It is important to stress that, although Islam cannot be seen as incompatible with modernity, there is always conflict involved in the emergence and experience of modernity. And tensions between modernity and Islam have tended to be
